News + Politics
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Boehner Takes First Steps to Defend DOMA, Pelosi Strikes Back
Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) released a statement this afternoon strongly suggesting that the House will take up a court defense of the Defense of Marriage...
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Maryland House Committee Votes 12-10 in Favor of Marriage Bill
Maryland’s House Judiciary Committee voted today 12-10 in favor of the passage of Senate Bill 116. The bill now moves on to the House of...
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Reacting to Arora's Second Flip
“I don’t think I have ever seen a politician’s Facebook page with not one defender.” Those were the words of well-known lesbian activist Hilary Rosen...
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Arora’s Flip Becomes a Flop: Will Vote for Maryland Marriage Bill, But Wants Referendum
Maryland Del. Sam Arora (D) has come under scrutiny from those who supported him during his candidacy in 2010. Arora had said he was supportive...
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Lambda Asks Court to Order OPM to Give Same-Sex Health Benefits “As Soon As Is Reasonably Possible”
Today, Lambda Legal called for U.S. District Court Judge Jeffrey White to order the Office of Personnel Management to grant health insurance benefits to the...
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Oscar show producer: Same-sex kiss was not part of editing plan [video]
”It was unscripted, and the plan in the truck was always to cut to Penelope in the audience applauding Josh’s...
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Freedom To Hate
Some people make me sick. Case in point, any member of the Fred Phelps clan who has been involved in the Westboro Baptist Church's ongoing...
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Gay Panic Fading
I never believed that Barack Obama was really opposed to marriage equality. It wasn't just that he had previously endorsed it and was completely comfortable...
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''An Innocent Kiss''
On Thursday, March 4, 2010, Washington awoke to a simple – yet novel – sight: Taka Ariga leaning in to kiss the man he wanted...
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Questions and Consequences
The decision on Feb. 23 by the Justice Department not to defend Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act in two cases pending in...
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Maryland Considering Transgender Protections
The Maryland House of Delegates Health and Government Operations Committee is scheduled to hold a hearing on a controversial bill that would prohibit some discrimination...
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Safety Shortfall
Mayor Vince Gray (D) will be appointing 27 people from the medical, faith and business communities in D.C., to serve on a newly developed Commission...
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Arora Flip ''a Shock''
Update: Arora released a statement on March 4. The lead sponsor of the marriage bill in Maryland's House of Delegates was also the first person to...
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UK Court denies foster child to anti-gay Pentacostal couple [video]
”The judges have suggested that our views might harm children. We have been told by the Equality and Human Rights Commission that our moral views...
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Marriage Birthday
On the one-year anniversary of the day marriage equality took effect for D.C. residents, Mayor Vince Gray had some words for members of Maryland's House...
